High chair



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Patented Feb. 5, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1,990,027 HIGH 01mm Orval C. Hatch, Union City, Pa.,

assignor, by di- American Chair Company, Sheboygan,

Wis., a

corporation of Wisconsin Application July 28, 1932, Serial No. 625,223

1 Claim.

One type of high chairs is formed with a wooden seat. The seat is usually provided with leg-receiving holes into which the ends of the legs are driven and glued. In order that the legs may be thus secured, it is necessary that the leg-receiving holes beplaced to the rear of the front edge of the seat so as to afford an interposed body between the front edge and the leg-receiving opening to provide a sufficient mass of material to hold the leg. It is also common with high chairs to provide a foot rest for the childs feet and as a matter of economy and convenience of construction this foot rest has been attached to the front legs with the rear edge of the rest in engagement with the front face of the legs. Usually the legs have been given a slightly forward and outward inclination for giving the legs a wider support on the floor, but even with this inclination the necessary projection of the front edge of the seat beyond the .front face of the legs has placed the front edge of the seat well out toward the front edge of the foot rest. In consequence a child resting on the seat has either curled its legs backwardly so as to have the full support of the foot rest, or has permitted the legs to hang from the knees with the feet in front of the foot rest.

The present invention is intended to correct the fault that has previously existed in chairs of this type. The front edge of the chair where engaged by the legs of the child is placed well back from what has been the previous practice so that the child resting on the seat and with the rear of the legs below the knees against the front edge of the seat may place the feet on the foot rest without curling back the legs under the chair seat and preferably this relation is such that the legs from the knee down may have a slightly forward inclination and still permit the feet to be supported fully by the foot rest. At this same time the construction is such as to afford a sufficient body of seat surrounding the leg openings to support the legs in their connection with the seat. This, in the preferred form, is accomplished by recessing the front edge of the seat, terminating the recess far enough from the side edges of the seat to afford a forwardly extending portion of the seat at the sides of suflicient body around the leg-receiving holes to permit the proper securing of the legs in the holes and to properly support the legs.

A preferred embodiment of the invention is 5 illustrated in the accompanying drawing as follows:-

Fig. 1 shows a central vertical section through the chair on the line 1-1 in Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 a horizontal section on the line 2-2 in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 a section on the line 3-3 in Fig. 2.

1 marks the chair seat and 2 the front and rear legs of the chair. These legs are secured in the ordinary manner in sockets 2a in the seat. The chair has a back 3, side arms 4, and side arm supports 5 formed in the usual manner of such chairs. It also is provided with a tray 6 having side arms '7 pivotally connected with the back of thechair. The tray is locked by a tape 8 extending from the tray and fastened under the front of the seat. A foot rest 9 is secured on the front legs in the usual position. The central portion of the front edge of the seat has a rearwardly extending recess 10. This places the front edge of the seat which is engaged by the backs of the legs of the child occupying the seat in such position as to permit the feet of the child to rest on the foot-rest 9 with the legs below the knee extending slightly forward. At the same time a sufficient body is afforded around the leg receiving openingsnear the sides of the seat for securing the front legs in place in the seat.

What I claim as new is:-

In a high chair, the combination of a wooden seat having a centrally recessed forward edge, the seat being provided adjacent the ends of the recess with downwardly extending leg-receiving openings, the side portions of the forward edge at the ends of the recess forming substantial bearings for chair legs; legs secured in the openings; and a foot rest mounted on the legs, the rear edge of the foot rest being in front of the rear edge of the central recess of the seat.

ORVAL C. HATCH. 

